Former Brazil international Juninho Paulista says a poor Copa America Centenario campaign will not be the end of Dunga with the Selecao.
The 52-year-old manager assumed the reigns of Brazil's national team for the second time following Luiz Felipe Scolari's disastrous 2014 World Cup, which was played on home soil. Dunga had previously been in charge of the five-time world champions from 2006-10.
Since taking over the Selecao for his second spell, the 1994 World Cup winner has steered the squad to a disappointing quarterfinal exit to Paraguay in last summer's Copa America in Chile and has endured criticism for a slow start to their World Cup qualifying campaign.
The former Sao Paulo, Middlesbrough and Atletico Madrid star, however, praised the former Internacional manager's approach with Brazil thus far.
"I think that planning is being done well," Juninho, who was on Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning squad, told Omnisport.
"The medium and long phase is [the] recovery of Brazil. It is very detailed. It's the return of Brazil.
"And Dunga is doing well. The goal is clear -- the 2018 FIFA World Cup. So I think, even losing [at the Copa America Centenario], Dunga will continue.
"It will not be the end of the age of Dunga."